Welcome to the first ever Shootmania Monthly Mapping Contest (MMC), 2nd of April 2013, hosted by ManiaExchange.

In the MMC, your task is to build a shootmania map on a given theme (see below). All of the submissions will be added to our Official MMC Server, which will be open to the public and is where our judges will play and judge the maps to find a winner.


Click Here to join the MMC server directly from your browser!


The Details

Let's have a look at the details of the contest:

Theme of the month: Grappling with Melee
Build a melee map incorporating grapple hooks. Judges will look to see 4 or more instances of the grapple hooks which are easily accessible and useful during gameplay.

Deadline: Friday, April 26th, 2013, 23:59:59 GMT

Prize:

First place: 10.000 planets
Second place: 7500 planets
Thrid place: 5000 planets

Top 3 maps will be featured in the news section on the frontpage, getting a lot more spotlight.
(the winners should expect to see their maps getting played on servers a lot more. )

The rules:

The map must contain at least 4 grappling hooks and no less!

The grappling hooks on your map should be easily accessible, the map must mainly be focused on the grappling hooks, so placing a couple on the side of the map is NOT enough.

The map must contain at least 8 spawns, but you can build more if you want.

Max. 1 map per author. Single author per map.

Blockmixing/Unlimiter is NOT allowed.

Include the sequence of letters "MMC" somewhere in the track name so that it can be easily discovered on mania-exchange.com.

The map must have been uploaded to the exchange before April 26th 2013 00:00 GMT (April 26th 23:59:59 is OK).

You may update your map as many times as you like, but you will have to post in the submissions thread what you updated about it.
(Please make a whole new post in the submissions thread for each updated version of the map)

A number of judges will rate the maps on the following topics:

Design – Layout, did the author really think about where to place certain blocks? scenery, the general "feel" of the map. The maps should be playable for beginners too. Max 15 points/judge

Creativity – The creativity of the map itself, stuff that you don't usually see, creative ideas, those kind of things. Max. 10 points/judge

Fun Factor – Depending on how fun the judges find your map, a few extra points can be given. Max 10 points/judge

How does it play – A map can have creative ideas, beautiful scenery, but does it actually work? Max 10 points/judge


Important: To enter a map, simply upload it and post a link to your submission in this thread.


We have enough judges for this month, but we still need volunteers for future MMC's. To volunteer as a judge, please send a PM to Basbaas!
(Note: We can't simply accept anyone, you have to be familiar enough with the game, the editor and the gameplay, we need trustworthy, reliable and committed judges.)

o Judges should be able to join our server and play the maps together at a time they agree.
o The set time for this should be announced so that map builders and the community can also join the party!
o The server will still be open for anyone (including judges) to join and play at other times.

Good luck! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me!

Historic day!!!

I'll give it a try, I just updated SM yesterday

Awesome, love this! Hopefully will participate.

I would think this might help to provide incentive for both community and map building for an otherwise much (understandably) less alive external community also.

I guess the server will be less interesting until the first MMC entries go onto it, but meanwhile, feel free to add it to your favourites

i already thought of hosting a mtc in sm too one or two months ago
but i didnt had the time

great to see this one here
i wont have the time to participate or to judge but i hope to be able to next time

I will participate for sure !

Mod Allowed ???

TitiShu says:
Mod Allowed ???

I don't think mods are that much of a problem. So yes, they are allowed

Are the builders allowed to update their maps after having uploaded? Or is the uploaded map the final one? Baring in mind you will need to know of any updates in order to keep the server up-to-date...